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vard University; the vice-presidents, Dr. 

 William H. Welch, of Johns Hopkins, and 

 Dr. Henry P. Walcott, of the Massachusetts 

 Board of Health. The long list of honorary 

 vice-presidents includes : Dr. Abraham Jacobi, 

 of New York City; Dr. William H. Burnham, 

 of Clark University; Cardinal Gibbons; Dr. 

 P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner 

 of Education; Surgeon-General Blue, of the 

 Public Health Service; Dr. H. M. Bracken, 

 of the Minnesota State Board of Health; 

 President David Starr Jordan, of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University; Dr. Woods 

 Hutchinson, representing the National Edu- 

 cation Association, and many other distin- 

 guished physicians, educators and civic ex- 

 perts. 



UNIVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mr. John R. Strong has given to the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 University for use as a forest experiment 

 station 100 acres of forest land at Tanners- 

 ville in the Catskills, including a summer 

 residence. The tract will be used as a forest 

 experiment station and for a students' camp 

 in the summer. 



Williams College has received $20,000 

 from the estate of John Savary, '55, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. The income from this amount 

 is to be used for the purchase of books for 

 the library. 



Western Reserve Unh^ersity has received 

 from Mr. Henry F. Lyman, of Cleveland, a 

 large collection of shells, corals and agates. 

 The collection is one begun by Mr. Lyman 

 during a visit to the Hawaiian Islands in 

 1875. 



Science Hall of Ohio University, Athens, 

 Ohio, has been completed and is now occupied 

 by the three departments of physics, chemistry 

 and biology. The building is a four story 

 structure of red pressed brick, 79 feet by 124 

 feet, costing about $120,000. The department 

 of physics and electrical engineering occupies 

 the first two floors. These will provide recita- 

 tion rooms and offices for the instructors in 

 the department; a large laboratory for gen- 

 eral physics, with two dark rooms and appa- 



ratus rooms attached; laboratories for the 

 various advanced courses in physics, with the 

 necessary weighing rooms and apparatus 

 rooms; a laboratory for electrical measure- 

 ments, with apparatus rooms and weighing 

 rooms attached; a dynamo motor and trans- 

 former laboratory; a photometric laboratory; 

 a storage battery room; high temperature 

 laboratory; unpacking room; storage rooms; 

 several small research laboratories ; constant 

 temperature laboratory; drafting room; shop; 

 private laboratory; library and reading room. 

 The other departments are correspondingly 

 arranged. 



A course in general science leading to the 

 degree of bachelor of science is offered for 

 1913-14 in the College of Arts and Sciences 

 of the University of Vermont. This course 

 is similar to the A.B. and Ph.B. courses in its 

 adlierence to the group system, but differs 

 from them in requiring mathematics and 

 physics and a larger amount of work in the 

 scientific group of studies. The course is 

 intended for those who intend to teach the 

 sciences in secondary schools and for those 

 who desire a broad scientific training before 

 entering a technical or professional school. 

 The entrance requirements of the new course 

 lay stress on the sciences rather than on the 

 languages. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 will hold a reunion of alumni in New York 

 City on January 17 and 18. There will be 

 special trains from Boston and probably from 

 Washington and Philadelphia. The plans in- 

 clude class luncheons on Friday and a mass 

 meeting in the afternoon; society and fra- 

 ternity breakfasts on Saturday, departmental 

 luncheons and a banquet in the evening. At 

 the mass meeting on Friday afternoon the 

 following have accepted the invitation to 

 speak: President R. C. Maclaurin, Mr. John 

 R. Freeman, Professor D. R. Dewey, Professor 

 A. A. Noyes and Professor W. T. Sedgwick. 

 Speakers at the department luncheons will 

 include the following: 



Course I. — Professor C. M. Spofford, Professor 

 G. P. Swain. 



